The City of Stardust by Georgia Summers

The City of Stardust by Georgia SummersA young woman descends into a seductive magical underworld of power hungry scholars, fickle gods and monsters bent on revenge to break her family's curse in this spellbinding contemporary fantasy debut. For centuries, generations of Everlys have seen their brightest and best disappear, taken as punishment for a crime no one remembers, for a purpose no one understands. Their tormentor, a woman named Penelope, never ages, never grows sick and never

A River of Golden Bones follows Calla’s journey through treacherous Wolf kingdoms

and utterly unpredictable

and can’t afford to make again

strung up in chains and left for dead

It’s what transpires behind closed doors that doesn’t feel like pretending at all

who is thirty years her senior

and Big Feelings

keeping strictly to the small farmhouse in the woods

She joins a group of kids who escaped their own camp

felt in every gust of wind

Huntington comes an explosive marriage of inconvenience

and using it is punishable by death